I live in the state of Pa. years ago my ex. and i agreed on

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I live in the state of Pa. years ago my ex. and i agreed on me paying her 85 dollars per child a week for child sppt. i have two children. it was through domestics. a few years later i hurt my back and been off ever since. I had total of three back surgerys.. i kept paying her the same amount the whole time. i finally had to take a settlement. which was i good amount. i kept paying her the same amount the whole time. i took some of that money and tried to fix my back . im at the point of trying to heal but it is taking longer then expected. now i am all out of money, its only been only just over a 1 since settlement. i had to buy a car out of settlement old car died. and a small home in fear of never be able to work again..i didnt want to be homeless after a few short years of paying child sppt. the rest i put into a surgery in hopes to get back to work..now im very depressed . in fear that domestic will slam me for a good portion of my settlement which i dont have anymore..my ex. got about ten thousand or just over that of it with in the years time. i owed about two thousand in back child sppt. which my work comp lawyer took off the top off of settlement and got my child sppt. caught up. can domestic make me pay anymore since its all gone or try to make me pay some sort of percentage of settlement. im so scared of owing an amount that i dont have anymore..i did not think i had to report it since her and i had that agreement of 170 a week in child sppt. im really getting depressed over worrying about owing amount i dont have.. i have another 6 years to go on child sppt. and i dont know if i can work any more..

it is just the total amount to date .i owed about 2000 in rears at the time ( june 7 of 2012) ..my lawyer said they would catch it up to date..then they would just take that amount plus their fee of 20% out of my total settlement. Then for the last year im still paying my child sppt as if i was still working ..which would be 170 a week, Times that by 52 weeks in a year is $8840.00 add that with the 2000.00 in rears. comes to $10.840.00 plus its almost july so their another month at 736.00 on top of that. domestic has not been real friendly to me. they make me feel like im a criminal .very depressed .

Hi, again, Paul, Don't worry, nobody can take anything away from you that you do not have.

Ideally, when you stopped working because of your back injury, you should have filed a Petition to Modify Child Support based on your reduced earnings. But that is water under the bridge. Since you are still not working, you can file the Petition to Modify now, but it will only be retroactive from the date you file your Petition to Modify, not from the date you became disabled. You do not need an Attorney to do this. The Clerk has a Form of a Petition to Modify which you will fill out and return to the Clerk and you will be given a hearing date. At the hearing, simply tell the Support Master what your situation is. Tell the truth about the settlement you received and say exactly what you said here - that you set aside some money for your back surgery, that you needed a car to get around, that you had borrowed money from family and friends and had to repay it from the settlement, some went to pay your child support arrears, some went to pay for your lawyer, etc.,

Ordinarily, when the parent who is paying the child support is injured, then receives a settlement, they want the parent to share some of the settlement money with his children as if he was still living with their mother, but that is not always the case when the parent is using the money for his injuries and for the things you used the money. So, do not worry and do not overthink this. Just go in, file your Motion to Modify and get your child support amount reduced,

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